Live internet video will get its big test with the royal wedding
The royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton Friday is going to be broadcast with a live feed on Google’s YouTube video service. Hopefully, it won’t bring down the internet. The chances of...
View ArticleYahoo acquires PeerCDN, a startup that speeds up websites
ExactTarget Yahoo has made yet another acquisition and is adding three more talented software engineers to its team. Today, the company bought PeerCDN, according to an announcement on the startup’s...
View ArticleFacebook & Akamai respond to NSA slides alleging massive CDN vulnerability
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View ArticleHere’s why Apple has begun serving up downloads from its own servers
Above: Apple campus in Cupertino, Calif.Image Credit: Simon Schoeters/FlickrNOTE: GrowthBeat -- VentureBeat's provocative new marketing-tech event -- is next week! We've gathered the best and brightest...
View ArticleCloudFlare adding 30K new customers a week and just passed 2B pageviews per...
Content delivery network-on-steroids CloudFlare is adding 30,000 customers a week, opened 10 new data centers on four continents in just the past month, and just passed two billion pageviews per...
View ArticleWho needs databases? Orchestrate closes massive $3M seed round to turn NoSQL...
Who needs SQL? In fact, who needs databases? Apparently no one, not even those who are building complex web applications. And new startup Orchestrate.io just took a massive $3 million seed round to...
View ArticleCloudflare: 150B pageviews/month, 30GB of log data/minute, and more surfers...
“Life is awful; it just sucks,” CloudFlare chief executive officer Matthew Prince jokes. His company is now processing 150 billion page views every month. Every minute, it generates 30 gigabytes of...
View ArticleSoftware bug to blame for global internet outage, Fastly says
Tuesday's hour-long internet outage happened after a customer changed settings and triggered a software bug, Fastly said.Read More
View ArticleNetlify, a platform for building web content, raises $105M
Netlify, a platform for building dynamic web content, including web apps, has raised $105 million in venture capital.Read More
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